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Jean Barois is the story of a young Roman Catholic intellectual who breaks with church and family, becomes a freethinker, wins a reputation as a progressive by pleading the cause of Dreyfus. Gradually (after his carriage accident) he becomes dissatisfied with materialist answers to matters of life & death, and in the end returns to the fold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Freethinker's Dilemma | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...third act starts off with an argument between a Catholic priest and the lover, who has been reading a communist journal. The padre's academic argument (there are only six pleasures of the flesh, but what fun you can have with the immortal soul) scarcely resolves the religious-materialist conflict...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: The Playgoer | 2/9/1949 | See Source »

...packed his thinking on peace and war, non-violence and violence, love and law, justice and coercion, into ten provocative words: "Christianity stands for the consecration, not the elimination, of force." Another sentence shows the originality, daring, and germinal nature of his theological thinking: "Christianity is the most avowedly materialist of all the great religions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prelate & Prophet | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Taking its cue, the Academy hastily dashed off a note to Scientist Stalin: "You, our dear leader and teacher, have helped Soviet scientists day in, day out, to develop our progressive materialist science serving the people in all its labors and exploits, a science expressing the ideology and lofty aims of the man of the new Socialist society . . . Advanced biological science rejects and pillories the erroneous idea that nature cannot be guided by the human control of conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dear Teacher ... | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...Sorbonne, Jacques and Raïssa Maritain had recoiled from the materialist philosophies of their professors. They had even brooded about a suicide pact, until Philosopher Henri Bergson's lectures opened their eyes to the possibility of a truth beyond reason. Then they read two of Bloy's books. Wrote Maritain: "All the values we gave to things were put in different places, as if by the turning of an invisible switch. We knew . . . from then on that 'there is but one sadness, and that is, not to be of the saints' . . ." Maritain and his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ultra-Modernist | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

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